History of the Christian Church • VOLUME 1
Apostolic Christianity, A.D. 1–100
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1History886 words2FROM THE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION798 words3PREFACE TO THIRD REVISION1,330 words4GENERAL INTRODUCTION1,891 words5§ 2. Branches of Church History.1,702 words6§ 3. Sources of Church History.2,026 words7In the same period North America, English and Protestant in its prevailing character, but presenting an asylum for all the nations, churches, and sects of the old world, 685 words8§ 5. Uses of Church History.2,080 words9§ 7. Literature of Church History.2,079 words10The Abbé Rohrbacher. (Professor of Church History at Nancy, d. 1856) wrote an extensive Universal History of the Church, including that of the Old Testament, down to 18482,115 words11Torrey's excellent translation (Rose translated only the first three centuries), published in Boston, Edinburgh, and London, in multiplied editions, has given Neander's i2,018 words12Philip Smith's History of the Christian Church during the First Ten Centuries (1879), and during the Middle Ages (1885), in 2 vols., is a skilful and useful manual for st2,085 words13[22] English translation by Dr. Edw. Cox, Lond. 1840-'42, in 4 vols. This combines Döllinger's Handbuch and Lehrbuch as far as they supplement each other.1,498 words14FIRST PERIOD1,315 words15§ 9. Judaism.2,028 words16As to religion, the Jews, especially after the Babylonish captivity, adhered most tenaciously to the letter of the law, and to their traditions and ceremonies, but withou856 words17§ 10. The Law, and the Prophecy.1,524 words18§ 11. Heathenism.2,024 words19§ 12. Grecian Literature, and the Roman Empire.2,430 words20The idea of a common humanity, which underlies all the distinctions of race, society and education, began to dawn in the heathen mind, and found expression in the famous 789 words21§ 13. Judaism and Heathenism in Contact.1,610 words22CHAPTER II.2,070 words23Roman authors of the 1st and 2d centuries make only brief and incidental mention of Christ as the founder of the Christian religion, and of his crucifixion under Pontius 2,008 words24§ 15. The Founder of Christianity.2,041 words25The miracles or signs which accompanied his teaching are supernatural, but not unnatural, exhibitions of his power over man and nature; no violations of law, but manifest2,165 words26§16. Chronology of the Life of Christ.2,099 words27Dr. Münter, bishop of Seeland, in 1821 directed new attention to this remarkable discovery, and also to the rabbinical commentary of Abarbanel on Daniel, according to whi2,123 words28The Time of the Crucifixion.2,077 words29The view here advocated is strengthened by astronomical calculation, which shows that in a.d. 30 the probable year of the crucifixion, the 15th of Nisan actually fell on 2,101 words30[126] Annal., iii. 48, as interpreted by A. W. Zumpt in a Latin dissertation: De Syria Romanorum provincia ab Caesare Augusto ad T. Vespasianum, in Comment. Epigraph., Be2,330 words31§ 17. The Land and the People.2,073 words32We proceed northward to Galilee where Jesus spent the most popular part of his public ministry and spoke so many of his undying words of wisdom and love to the astonished2,199 words33Jesus himself was not only the son of a carpenter, but during his youth he worked at that trade himself. [185] When he entered upon his public ministry the zeal for God's2,202 words34He knew from the beginning that he was the Messiah of God and the King of Israel. This consciousness reached its maturity at his baptism when he received the Holy Spirit 2,059 words354. No amount of detached words of wisdom constitute an organic system of ethics any, more than a heap of marble blocks constitute a palace or temple; and the best system 2,003 words36§ 18. Apocryphal Traditions.2,006 words37(13) "If ye kept not that which is little, who will give you that which is great? For I say unto you, he that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much." From the2,015 words38On the ground of these descriptions, and of the Abgar and the Veronica legends, arose a vast number of pictures of Christ, which are divided into two classes: the Salvato1,333 words39§ 19. The Resurrection of Christ.2,035 words40(a) The first insuperable argument against the visionary nature, and in favor of the objective reality, of the resurrection is the empty tomb of Christ. If he did not ris2,122 words41[209] Acts 2:24, 32; Rom. 6:4; l0:9; 1 Cor. 15:15; Eph. 1:20; 1 Pet. 1:21.2,011 words42CHAPTER III.2,093 words43Emil Ferriére: Les Apôtres. Paris, 1875.809 words44§21. General Character of the Apostolic Age.2,014 words45The labors of James and Peter we can follow in the Acts to the Council of Jerusalem, a.d. 50, and a little beyond; those of Paul to his first imprisonment in Rome, a.d. 62,000 words46§22. The Critical Reconstruction of the History of the Apostolic Age.2,079 words47Baur (Gesch. der christl. Kirche, I., 80 sqq.) and Renan (St. Paul, ch. X.) go so far as to assert that this genuine John excludes Paul from the list of the apostles (Apo2,002 words482. Paul's own conversion and call to the apostleship by the personal appearance to him of the exalted Redeemer from heaven. Gal. 1:1, 15, 16; 1 Cor. 9:1; 15:8.1,784 words49§ 23. Chronology of the Apostolic Age.1,662 words50CHAPTER IV.2,003 words51So far we may say that the Pentecostal glossolalia was the same as that in the household of Cornelius in Caesarea after his conversion, which may be called a Gentile Pent2,074 words52We do not know how long the glossolalia, as thus described by Paul, continued. It passed away gradually with the other extraordinary or strictly supernatural gifts of the2,133 words53(f) It was a temporary speaking in foreign languages confined to the day of Pentecost and passing away with the flame-like tongues. The exception was justified by the obj2,267 words54[252] John 14:6, 26; 15:26; 16:7. The preparatory communication of the Spirit is related in John 20:22.1,189 words55§ 25. The Church of Jerusalem and the Labors of Peter.2,274 words56The time of Peter's arrival in Rome, and the length of his residence there, cannot possibly be ascertained. The above mentioned silence of the Acts and of Paul's Epistles781 words57§ 26. The Peter of History and the Peter of Fiction.2,086 words58Note. -- On the Claims of the Papacy.2,008 words59§ 27. James the Brother of the Lord.2,121 words60The Epistle in our canon, which purports to be written by "James, a bond-servant of God and of Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes of the dispersion," though not generally2,045 words
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